Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Monday, 19 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Environmental Issues and Irish EU Presidency: Discussion with EU Environment Commissioner
3:05 pm
Mr. Janez Poto?nik:
Okay, I will not continue. Deputy Flanagan said we should not get personal. I will choose an example from fishing, because it is the same story. In the long term, the interest of a fisherman and of an environmentalist are the same. It is sustainable fishing. In the short term, the interest of the fisherman is to catch as much as he can because the first one who throws the dynamite into the water shapes how everyone will catch. The environmentalist would stop all the fishing. In essence, however, they both want the same thing, which is sustainable fishing. With that logic, I would approach the answering of those questions.
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